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Macbook Air M1 Severe Eye strain, but eye health OK, and HP elitebook G8 no eye strain at all

Hi Apple Community,


I'm writing this letter with a very clear intention to gather attention from apple engineering team responsible to screen technology. There has been a lot of reports in online forums such as reddit, ledstran.com and others about issues related to macbook screens. The specific issue that is constantly repeated is - severe eye strain. The causes of it could be:


PWM flicker (less likely a root cause if above 50 percent of brightness it does not apply)

Aggressive Temporal Dithering - very likely cause.


Could you please include at least an option to reduce flicker as much as possible with a goal to minimise eye strain at the expense of colour accuracy ? This might get me back on board, otherwise as you can see I'm writing from my new HP elitebook G8 which does not give any eye strain at all!!! Can work 12h straight and still have almost 100 sRGB colour accuracy.


Thank you.

Posted on Apr 24, 2022 2:58 PM

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Posted on Apr 24, 2022 3:07 PM

You are not addressing Apple here. We are users like you.

If you are experiencing eye strain you should consult your eye doctor.

If you wish to provide feedback to Apple you can use this link: Product Feedback - Apple


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Apr 25, 2022 1:37 AM in response to bartzkrieg

Tried adjusting colour profile, brightness, turning off hiDPI using special app, etc. No luck, and ended up finding a big community of like minded people who do have perfect eyes or at least good eyes, but apple just have some weird effects on our eyes. Effects are similar to PWM flicker which used to be quite low frequency and omnipresent in older days, but this is I believe LED flicker. Now, I get away, by using 2-3 days PC (hp elitebook G8), then 1 day macbook. If I go with macbook for more than 2 days, my eye strain, my sleep and all the other things would get really bad.

Macbook Air M1 Severe Eye strain, but eye health OK, and HP elitebook G8 no eye strain at all

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